I also recommend looking at the MicroSoft Press book called "MicroSoft Inside Out" published last year on their 25th incorporation anniversary. It is like a student yearbook with several hundred short stories by current and former employees. Most of these talk about the product's they've worked on, but others talk about MS culture, and geek life.
The collection is loosely organized in historical sections with propaganda pieces by the executives. It is not as coherent as a single-author book, but has its sweet spots.
A few days ago the Supreme Court banned remote
sensing searchs of one's home, specifically
heat sensors for marijuana gardens lamps.
I don't believe this extends to businesses (farmland),
but probably to one's cars.
There are several major diseases: cystic fibrosis,
tay sachs, huntingtons, AIDS- where the gene(s)
have been exactly known for at least five years,
but are no where near a cure. Its not that simple.
Some rental locations, particluarly big urban
centers with high accident and default problems
have experimented with driving record and credit
rating denials of service. A number of people
have been peeved to fly into an airport and
find their rental denied because they had more
than one moving violation. The rental companies
wont tell you in advance because it costs several
dollars to run these searches and many reservations
are vapor. They feel it is worth irritating a
few percent of their customers rather than lose
thousands on high risks.
In supernova 1987, the neutrino pulse was only
seconds before the radiation brightening.
Not much notice.
If neutrinos have mass, they'd travel a little
slower than the speed of light. So you'd expect
some delays in that 1987 was about 150K light
years away.
Last time I looked at the local computer rag
some 70-80 GB disks had fallen below $200.
One gig holds a 30-60 minutes of compressed video.
The early PVR systems were pricey at $15 / GB,
but there are hack web sites that tell you how to
add your own disk cheap.
I would not be surprised in the near future you
could get a hundred hours of video storage for
a hundred bucks. Then why rent the remote disk?
Americans are a notorious stingy lot.
The alternative fuel cars- pure electric, hybrid,
and natural gas- all have cost premiums of 20-50%.
They don't do well in the market except for a few
dedicated enthusiasts.
The proposed Cheney-Bush energy program has a
$2000 tax credit for alternative fuel cars,
so that could help.
A big advantage to me of this media would be
saving shelf spacing. I probably have a 100 feet
each of books in the office and home. I'd acquire
more books, but don't like having to move them
when I move. Books are among the heaviest portion
of my possessions.
Ebooks become as convenient as printed books
when the monitors become small enough.
The "first generation" ebooks about the size of an
EtchASketch (TM) are still too bulky.
E-paper may result in clipboard-size monitors.
The B&W has been around five years from Xerox
and MIT. Spin-off companies have demoed at
conventions. The display is not really paper,
but plastic about as thin as those "for sale"
signs you can buy at a hardware store. They
basically can go anywhere you'd put a thin
plastic sheet, so dynamic store window and real
bulletin board displays are an obvious use.
Any you could have notebbook/tablet/ebook portable
computers less than a millimeter thick too.
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The most interesting thing I found in this book is
Linus is a fairly ordinary high tech guy who
achieved extraordinary things by refusing to set
limits. He did a lot of hacks all of do as kids,
had good but not elitist education and so on.
That should inspire the rest if us "ordinary people"
to strive for extraordinary goals.
Its a lot like the Oxford English Dictionary
versus Websters Collegiate- Chinese printers have
gotten by with 7-10K characters versus the 60-80K
in the full language. Synonyms and hononyms are
used for the more obscure words. The standard
modern Chinese dictionaries only have this smaller
number of characters.
When an A.I.-type problem is solved- e.g. game playing, image analysis, expert systems, etc.- then people say it is was an easy problem and not really A.I.
One of the oldest definitions of A.I. hasn't really been reached yet: the Turing Test.
That would be a tele-conversion with an entity
where you couldn't tell whether it was human or machine.
Chinese for you've got mail would probably be
sloganized to you3you2, which sounds like the
toy. Colloquial Chinese frequently drops the
subject pronoun like Spanish. They like to construct
buzzwords selected from the most significant
syllable from each word.
LOTR plans to use several- Gollum, various monsters, and others.
I am encouraged by the quality of virtual actors
in Shrek. JarJar in Phantom and the humans in
Toy Story were disappointing, but my hopes are
high for LOTR.
I liked the prequel operas by Wagner,
especially the third when the nine fat
ladies (Valkeries) come out and sing,
think stick it to all those nasty Germans
showing off their shiny swords...
In general, mainstream A.I. has had disappointing
results over the past 40 years, even though A.I.
labs like MIT, SRI and Xerox have invented great general computining software (emacs, GNU, bitmap graphics, etc).
The driving force for A.I. in my opinion will come out of the entertainment computing industry.
These including gaming/movie characters with realistic behaviors and robo-toys. Conventional computing labs are driven by making money in business or beating the military enemy. However, nothing is more stimulating than "play". The MIT Media Lab has worked a bit on this.
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I also recommend looking at the MicroSoft Press book called "MicroSoft Inside Out" published last year on their 25th incorporation anniversary. It is like a student yearbook with several hundred short stories by current and former employees. Most of these talk about the product's they've worked on, but others talk about MS culture, and geek life.
The collection is loosely organized in historical sections with propaganda pieces by the executives. It is not as coherent as a single-author book, but has its sweet spots.
A few days ago the Supreme Court banned remote
sensing searchs of one's home, specifically
heat sensors for marijuana gardens lamps.
I don't believe this extends to businesses (farmland),
but probably to one's cars.
There are several major diseases: cystic fibrosis,
tay sachs, huntingtons, AIDS- where the gene(s)
have been exactly known for at least five years,
but are no where near a cure. Its not that simple.
Some rental locations, particluarly big urban
centers with high accident and default problems
have experimented with driving record and credit
rating denials of service. A number of people
have been peeved to fly into an airport and
find their rental denied because they had more
than one moving violation. The rental companies
wont tell you in advance because it costs several
dollars to run these searches and many reservations
are vapor. They feel it is worth irritating a
few percent of their customers rather than lose
thousands on high risks.
The software can tell the difference between
random GPS errs and continuous speeding.
No need to make up sophmoric excuses for bad
behavior.
In supernova 1987, the neutrino pulse was only
seconds before the radiation brightening.
Not much notice.
If neutrinos have mass, they'd travel a little
slower than the speed of light. So you'd expect
some delays in that 1987 was about 150K light
years away.
I believe this was the premise of the movie
"Species".
All nearly 50-year old languages in significant
use. BASIC (from the 60s) is relatively youthful.
MIT still uses LISP as its comp-sci intro language.
Last time I looked at the local computer rag
some 70-80 GB disks had fallen below $200.
One gig holds a 30-60 minutes of compressed video.
The early PVR systems were pricey at $15 / GB,
but there are hack web sites that tell you how to
add your own disk cheap.
I would not be surprised in the near future you
could get a hundred hours of video storage for
a hundred bucks. Then why rent the remote disk?
Americans are a notorious stingy lot.
The alternative fuel cars- pure electric, hybrid,
and natural gas- all have cost premiums of 20-50%.
They don't do well in the market except for a few
dedicated enthusiasts.
The proposed Cheney-Bush energy program has a
$2000 tax credit for alternative fuel cars,
so that could help.
A big advantage to me of this media would be
saving shelf spacing. I probably have a 100 feet
each of books in the office and home. I'd acquire
more books, but don't like having to move them
when I move. Books are among the heaviest portion
of my possessions.
Ebooks become as convenient as printed books
when the monitors become small enough.
The "first generation" ebooks about the size of an
EtchASketch (TM) are still too bulky.
E-paper may result in clipboard-size monitors.
The B&W has been around five years from Xerox
and MIT. Spin-off companies have demoed at
conventions. The display is not really paper,
but plastic about as thin as those "for sale"
signs you can buy at a hardware store. They
basically can go anywhere you'd put a thin
plastic sheet, so dynamic store window and real
bulletin board displays are an obvious use.
Any you could have notebbook/tablet/ebook portable
computers less than a millimeter thick too.
The most interesting thing I found in this book is
Linus is a fairly ordinary high tech guy who
achieved extraordinary things by refusing to set
limits. He did a lot of hacks all of do as kids,
had good but not elitist education and so on.
That should inspire the rest if us "ordinary people"
to strive for extraordinary goals.
Its a lot like the Oxford English Dictionary
versus Websters Collegiate- Chinese printers have
gotten by with 7-10K characters versus the 60-80K
in the full language. Synonyms and hononyms are
used for the more obscure words. The standard
modern Chinese dictionaries only have this smaller
number of characters.
In the sense they are no long obvious and get in
the way. Dertozous has written books on this.
Sometimes means also hydrogen and/or oxygen.
make it really ugly too.
That will scare people away.
If you make something big, like the large pyramids,
they'll attract people.
Micro-money has been around for a while- otherwise called a dot-com option.
Also called a dot-com paycheck.
One of the oldest definitions of A.I. hasn't really been reached yet: the Turing Test. That would be a tele-conversion with an entity where you couldn't tell whether it was human or machine.
You aren't ging to have high tension wires there.
The Detroit cable is 1% the weight of the copper
it replaces, and almost twice as efficent.
Chinese for you've got mail would probably be
sloganized to you3you2, which sounds like the
toy. Colloquial Chinese frequently drops the
subject pronoun like Spanish. They like to construct
buzzwords selected from the most significant
syllable from each word.
LOTR plans to use several- Gollum, various monsters, and others.
I am encouraged by the quality of virtual actors
in Shrek. JarJar in Phantom and the humans in
Toy Story were disappointing, but my hopes are
high for LOTR.
I liked the prequel operas by Wagner, ...
especially the third when the nine fat
ladies (Valkeries) come out and sing,
think stick it to all those nasty Germans
showing off their shiny swords
In general, mainstream A.I. has had disappointing results over the past 40 years, even though A.I. labs like MIT, SRI and Xerox have invented great general computining software (emacs, GNU, bitmap graphics, etc).
The driving force for A.I. in my opinion will come out of the entertainment computing industry. These including gaming/movie characters with realistic behaviors and robo-toys. Conventional computing labs are driven by making money in business or beating the military enemy. However, nothing is more stimulating than "play". The MIT Media Lab has worked a bit on this.